Gallo covered the three year old's body with bruises and bite marks before raping and killing her at her while her mother was at work. He then cleaned up a blood-spattered bathroom, dressed her in clean clothes and called her mother to say the girl was not breathing.

Bourque's truth?

He tried to argue that the girl's mother was responsible for the crime.

Completing the biblical metaphor, Bourque stated,

"The blood is on my hands, too... and I can no more wash it off than Pontius Pilate."

In light of Mel Gibson's recent revisionist take on the Roman governor, perhaps Bourque was shooting for sympathy.